Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has obtained an eight-year jail sentence, in addition to a nice, confiscation of his property and flogging, by an Iranian court docket, Rasoulof’s lawyer Babak Paknia introduced in a post on X (previously often known as Twitter) on Wednesday. Paknia mentioned the decision was issued by twenty ninth department of … Read more
A French collective representing the pursuits of French movie competition employees has referred to as for a basic strike “of all workers of the Cannes Movie Competition and of its sidebars.” The Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens) collective, made the decision in a public assertion on Monday. The group has lengthy … Read more
Anthony Hopkins, who has embodied a solid of real-life characters in his lengthy profession, starting from Richard Nixon (in Nixon) and Sigmund Freund (Freud’s Final Session) to Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock), and Adolf Hitler (1981 TV film The Bunker), is about to play composer George Frideric Handel within the upcoming characteristic The King of Covent Backyard. … Read more
The brand new initiatives from two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund (The Triangle of Disappointment, The Sq.); Irish director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium and upcoming Nicolas Cage drama The Surfer); and Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska, director of Letitia Wright/Tamara Lawrance-starrer The Silent Twins, can be pitching to potential backers at this yr’s Cannes Traders Circle, an … Read more
The Cannes Movie Competition has picked its full jury. Oscar-nominated The Killers of the Flower Moon lead Lily Gladstone, French stars Eva Inexperienced and Omar Sy and Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino are among the many A-listers who will be part of Barbie director Greta Gerwig, this yr’s jury president for the 77th Cannes Movie Competition, … Read more